Meet “Monpti” 💕

So, yesterday marked my 11-Month-Aversary for moving into my “Bus”🚌. And, a lot has happened since I last wrote.

I had been starting to look into getting something smaller than my “Bus”, so that I would be able to pick up and leave at a moment’s notice. I was starting to feel stuck here and it was starting to cause me a lot of anxiety. I hate being or feeling stuck. 🙈 So, I’ve spent weeks and weeks looking at different possibilities, from Class B’s, to smaller Class C’s and even truck campers. I went to different dealers to look at multiple options. I even went and looked at the new Cirrus truck camper. I had seen pictures and videos and was totally in love with it. And I was still in love with it when I went to see it in person. If it was just me, I would have most definitely gone that route. But, if you’ve never actually seen a truck camper, you literally have no floor space. And the Cirrus doesn’t have a slide. So you basically had maybe 5ft x 2 ft of actual floor space (space where your feet touch the ground). And with 2, even though small, dogs; that just wasn’t a feasible option. Not if I wanted to be fair to my pups, anyway. So, I reluctantly wrote that off.

I don’t know how many hours I spent these last few weeks looking at ads, scouring YouTube, etc., to learn as much as I could about all my options. In the meantime, my “Bus” was loosing value by the day. In April I was told one number and by the beginning of May that number had already gone down by $2K. So, that added to my stress. 😣 But I had to keep the faith, knowing that God would open the right door, in HIS time, not mine. And suddenly, there it was, an offer from a dealer in Southern California for a straight trade-my “Bus” for an almost brand-new travel trailer. And in typical Ina fashion 😜, I made the deal, sight unseen (I had only seen pictures online and communicated with the dealer via email). But so did the dealer. He took my word for the condition of my Bus. It was meant to be.🙏🏻

And last Saturday, it arrived…

Meet my new “Tiny Nest” (thinking of calling it “Monpti” for Mon Petite). It’s a 2015 Whitewater Retro 181B. 18 feet of cuteness and I love every inch. 💕 It’s been 5 days and I’m pretty much settled, now. Though I have to admit that I was more than a little scared when it first arrived and I saw all my stuff sitting in my site that I now had to fit in here 🙈

And now, without further ado, meet “Monpti”. 💕

P.S. YouTube video is uploading as we speak. Please check back in a little while or visit my YouTube channel at TinyNestTravels